Guest Post By Jane Roper Three months after my five-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, I cut off my hair. It’s not what you think; I wasn’t shaving it in solidarity with her hair loss. In fact, she didn’t start losing her hair in earnest until a couple months later. And while I did donate [...]
December 19, 2012
Here’s what happened in Steubenville, Ohio on August 11 after a neighborhood party. An unconscious girl, a teenager, drunk out of her mind and completely blacked out, was raped repeatedly. Pictures were taken, then passed around, just as she was recklessly passed around that night. According to the New York Times, some folks in Steubenville [...]
August 27, 2012
I hadn’t heard of social suicide until the same child who invented pussy up, told me she could not ride the bike she’d saved for, because her helmet didn’t “go” with the bike. The long coveted bike was a powder blue cruiser; a-girl-on-the-way-home -from-the-beach, hair loose, a sandy-bare feet-riding-bike. The handle bars begged for a [...]
June 13, 2012
Jezebel editor in chief, Jessica Coen, wrote a great opinion piece yesterday about how she felt jaded by the blatant sexist, misogyny found all over the internet. You Tube, Facebook, and yes, folks, even right here on our blog. Some of the spam we get from this article is particularly gross. Jessica was writing in [...]
March 27, 2012
There is not a worse feeling than having your parent humiliate you in public. Me, it was my Nana, whom I adored, screaming my name across a clothing store. Like a banshee: “Hayleyyy! Come and look at this pink shirt!” Now, replace that with: “You can not absolutely not have three pieces of cake because [...]
March 23, 2012
Guest Post by, Andrea Chisholm I grew up with a guardian over my refrigerator door. A picture of a mud covered snorting pig with the caption, “ A moment on your lips, forever on your hips.” For years the pig made me laugh. She was so cute and seemed so happy and playful I don’t think [...]
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